Isaac Mizrahi Quotes

History was not written by men who predicted failure…

I was told by thousands of people I would never make it.

How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.

Man is not made for defeat.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

Who never fell climbed high never low.

We in China are convinced that it is the better half of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously, but to risk it gloriously.

I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.

You either lose your way or you break through the hardships and play well. There is a massive difference.

Just keep going. You never know how far you can go.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.

We have all lost before and we will win again.

The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.

Before I was a champion, I failed, and I was afraid.

My story is one of ups and downs. It's made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.